Profiles and protocols for the Internet Public-Key Infrastructure

Author

Admas, C. ; Lloyd, Steve

Author_Institution

Entrust Technol., USA

fYear

1997

fDate

29-31 Oct 1997

Firstpage

220

Lastpage

224

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the ongoing standardization activities within the Internet community with respect to public key infrastructures based on the X.509 authentication framework. In particular, this paper describes the status of the Internet Public Key Infrastructure which is being addressed within the IETF PKIX working group. This paper introduces the concept of a PKI in general and specifically discusses the purpose and status of the following PKIX work areas: X.509 certificate and CRL profile; operational protocols; certificate management protocols; certificate policy and certification practices framework; time stamp protocols; and notrary protocols

Keywords

Internet; certification; message authentication; protocols; public key cryptography; software standards; standardisation; CRL profile; IETF PKIX working group; Internet Public-Key Infrastructure; X.509 authentication framework; X.509 certificate; certificate management protocols; certificate policy; certification; notrary protocols; operational protocols; protocols; standardization; time stamp protocols; Authentication; Certification; Content addressable storage; Data structures; Internet; Protocols; Public key; Security; Societies; Standardization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1997., Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Tunis

ISSN

1071-0485

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8153-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1997.644729

Filename

644729